plunder 的 3 个定义
- to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- to rob, despoil, or fleece: to plunder the public treasury.
- to take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud: to plunder a piece of property.
- to take plunder; pillage.
- plundering, pillage, or spoliation.
- that which is taken in plundering; loot.
- anything taken by robbery, theft, or fraud.
plunder 近义词
something stolen
ravage, steal
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- This Daily Dose dives into ancient mysteries that make Indiana Jones movies seem dull, examines current controversies around repatriations and gives you a peek at the world’s most sought-after plunder.
- Surveying the plunders of rodents who nested with or near ancient humans can uncover truths about where and how our ancestors lived, as well as what environmental forces drove them.
- The British, however, settled for the capitulation of Alexandria, and made off with a trove of ships and other plunder as they sailed back down the Potomac.
- That standard gothic story plot is about borders and border crossing, about the terrors of the other, about wealth and exploitation and plunder and shifting power dynamics.
- The manner of this acquisition would be a topic of discussion in biblical interpretation for centuries, for fear that it looks like plunder.
- It was up to the countries in which these acts of plunder had taken place to decide who rightfully owned the recovered works.
- Hulagu then gave his men licence to rape, kill and plunder with the caveat that Christians and Jews were to be spared.
- When they ran out of food, he would “go down to Babylon to plunder,” which means stealing from grocery stores.
- In contrast to other brigades, whose motto is “fight by day, plunder by night,” ISIS is a dedicated combat force.
- And it is repeated: “on the plunder they did not lay their hand.”
- But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.
- And knowing that bunch as well as I do, I don't think they'll lift the plunder and quit the country till they can go together.
- I stumbled over a fat trumpeter in the field, stript and plunder'd, with his skin full of bullets.
- From this area, Dunmore and his friends made repeated plunder attacks along the coast of Virginia until summer.
- Consequently, we could not ascribe these deaths to a desire for plunder on the part of some unknown person.